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“Stay safe in uncertain times” It’s a message of stability that Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen bet on in her campaign ahead of Tuesday’s general election, seeking to capitalize on her response to the showdown with the Trump administration over Greenland. Frederiksen, who has gained international recognition for his strong response to the Ukraine war, the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and threats by US President Donald Trump, had until October to call an election. And she chose her moments carefully. Last year, Mr. Frederiksen’s Social Democratic Party was in the doldrums. According to polling firm Megafon, the center-left party suffered…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon departs from the Capitol in Washington on February 25, 2026.Graham Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJP Morgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon warned on Tuesday that artificial intelligence could cost US jobs and suggested the government could create an incentive system for businesses to soften the blow.”If you suddenly have people unemployed, that’s a big problem for society,” Dimon said during a panel discussion with Palantir Secretary of Defense and former U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) at the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington.”I don’t know the answer yet, but I would like to think…
Will & Deni McIntyre | Corbis Documentary | Getty ImagesAlthough the SAVE plan has officially been discontinued, millions of student loan borrowers remain enrolled in the program, and this decision could cost them dearly. After a lengthy legal battle, a federal appeals court earlier this month ordered the end of the Biden administration-era repayment program Savings for Valuable Education (SAVE), which was designed to significantly lower monthly bills for borrowers. Borrowers enrolled in SAVE have been given a repayment holiday from July 2024 while the legal challenge unfolds, meaning they no longer have to make any payments on their debts.…
With a war chest full of $5 billion in funding that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is making acquisitions. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced Tuesday that it is launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch leverages Databricks’ ability to store large amounts of data and perform traditional security information and event management (SIEM) tasks such as threat detection and investigation. It’s only with the help of an AI agent assisted by Claude from Anthropic. Databricks has acquired two startups to support this new product. One is Antimatter, which…
Russian forces have launched a spring offensive in eastern Ukraine that includes the use of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, according to Ukrainian military and analysts. The attacks are accelerating as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he has a “very bad feeling” about the impact of the Middle East conflict on his country. “We see that our diplomatic meetings and trilateral meetings are often postponed for one reason: the war in Iran,” he said in an interview with the BBC on Sunday. “President Putin will want a long war. For President Putin, a long war in Iran is a…
Ellen Pompeo & Chris IveryApparently it was record producer Chris Ivery who asked Grey’s Anatomy lead Ellen Pompeo to “choose me, choose me, love me” after they passed each other at a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003. “I was with a mutual friend,” the actress, who has starred as Meredith Gray since the series premiered in 2005, elaborated on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2022. So after exchanging a quick hello with his girlfriend, who is also from the Boston area, “he kept calling me and I didn’t call him back. And he said, ‘You’re being rude. You’re not…
Approximately 15% Total Energy” As the war with Iran approaches a month old, production has been halted, but rising oil prices have more than made up for lost barrels, Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne told CNBC in an exclusive interview.While much of the focus has been on oil prices, with Brent crude trading firmly above $100 a barrel, Pouyanne said the impact of the crisis on product prices is far greater. “The Brent market is fine, but the product market that impacts customers…is much higher than Brent,” he told CNBC at S&P Global’s CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. He added…
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that will allow artists to review releases before making them public on their profiles. The idea behind this new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on streaming services. “Music is showing up on the wrong artist pages across streaming services, and the rise of easily produced AI tracks is making the problem even worse,” Spotify said in a blog post. “This is not the experience we want artists to have…
doha, qatar — With his latest ultimatum on Iran on the horizon, US President Donald Trump has pushed the restive Persian Gulf region to the brink of further uncertainty and danger. The Iran war is already in its fourth week, leaving thousands of people dead and injured, global energy prices soaring and vast swaths of the troubled Middle East experiencing horrific violence. But President Trump’s characteristically blunt ultimatum to “attack and destroy” Iranian power plants, announced over the weekend on his platform Truth Social, could open a Pandora’s box of negative consequences for the region unless the Islamic Republic loosens…
In 2025, target-date funds continued along three trends that made investors relatively happy.For one thing, they’ve gotten bigger. A report released earlier this month by investment research firm Morningstar found that the total amount invested by investors in these funds reached $4.8 trillion in 2025, largely due to last year’s rally in stock and bond markets. As a group, target-date funds have grown 11.9% annually over the past five years. The price has also become cheaper. The fund’s annual expense ratio in 2025 will average 0.27%, down from 0.29% the year before and 0.55% in 2015, according to the report.…